Bobbie Bobster Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Should've redeveloped The Bowl for a full long course pool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 11 fuckn months though to change a bit of grout. Don’t forget the place was closed for months after the floods too. This is the epitome of IoM govplc in a nutshell. Huge costs, contractors taking the piss, no one taking responsibility, no governance, reeks of incompetence, stinks of brown envelopes, heads won’t roll, and the real cost is us, us the user. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, Gizo said: 11 fuckn months though to change a bit of grout. Don’t forget the place was closed for months after the floods too. This is the epitome of IoM govplc in a nutshell. Huge costs, contractors taking the piss, no one taking responsibility, no governance, reeks of incompetence, stinks of brown envelopes, heads won’t roll, and the real cost is us, us the user. don't forget the fire....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 11 minutes ago, Gizo said: the place was closed for months after the floods too. lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 I think the entire floating floor mechanism has been replaced. Dont know what the service life was meant to be? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 I know it’s not quite the same, but the one in Blackpool Tower Circus has had a service life of more than 125 years. They don’t make them like they used to. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 The old Nobles baths , where I learned to swim, lasted for yonks it was always busy, in a central position and was really well designed, remember sitting upstairs looking down when all the schools competed. Those Victorians knew what they were at when it came to building and design. The Government motto must be Have money must spend....Have no money...spend twice as much. Do not worry about healthcare, housing, foodbanks just make sure the bottom of the swimming pool goes up and down and the slides are the most expensive in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 1 minute ago, hissingsid said: The old Nobles baths , where I learned to swim, lasted for yonks it was always busy, in a central position and was really well designed, remember sitting upstairs looking down when all the schools competed. Those Victorians knew what they were at when it came to building and design. The Government motto must be Have money must spend....Have no money...spend twice as much. Do not worry about healthcare, housing, foodbanks just make sure the bottom of the swimming pool goes up and down and the slides are the most expensive in the world. But nobles didn’t have a floating floor, like the NSC and Tower Circus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manximus Aururaneus Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 According to IOMG statistics, the average cost of housing stock sold on the Island (2017) was £248,250.0 - That makes a swimming pool refurb equivalent to the cost of 18.1 houses including land value. Hmmmm.......... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 It's gonna be great! 8x400 free on 5m30s 12x100 fly on 1m50s 2x4x50 first choice on 2.45 decreasing 15s each rep Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 44 minutes ago, hissingsid said: The old Nobles baths , where I learned to swim, lasted for yonks it was always busy, in a central position and was really well designed, remember sitting upstairs looking down when all the schools competed. Those Victorians knew what they were at when it came to building and design. The Government motto must be Have money must spend....Have no money...spend twice as much. Do not worry about healthcare, housing, foodbanks just make sure the bottom of the swimming pool goes up and down and the slides are the most expensive in the world. You needed feckin healthcare after swimming in those baths 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 It was sea water so no chlorine and no germs, mind you we were tough in those days to be fair viruses and allergies had not been invented so you were well or ill you lived or died, life was so much more simple. And no one got verrucas..... I did not really excell in swimming until I got to Balla when the method was to put a bicycle tyre with a bit of rope around the victim and pull you across the pool, I kid you not. I have still got my certificate for swimming a breadth without putting my feet on the bottom of the pool. We knew how to live, we did not need a floor that went up and down. Happy days..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Uhtred said: Having elected Cregeen and Moorhouse, the voters of Arbory, Castletown and Malew just pipped their rivals in Onchan, who bravely tried with Callister and Edge, to the “Are you bloody joking...that pair!” Trophy at the last General Election. Churchill once observed that the representative institutions democracy relied upon, no longer attracted the quality of people necessary for them to function effectively. 1931; "Democracy as a guide or motive to progress has long been known to be incompetent. None of the legislative assemblies of the great modern states represents in universal suffrage even a fraction of the strength or wisdom of the community...Democratic governments drift along the line of least resistance, taking short views, paying their way with sops and doles, and smoothing their path with pleasant-sounding platitudes." Sound familiar? (from Churchill. Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts. p 358) Edited March 18, 2019 by Derek Flint 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Imagine the societal and health benefits, though. Will pay for itself in under 3 years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manximus Aururaneus Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Bobbie Bobster said: Imagine the societal and health benefits, though. Will pay for itself in under 3 years. Make it private investment then - you invest £4.5M and take the profits. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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